MEGA BIRD NEWS:2nd May 2026-Lesser Kestrel-Cornwall-Croft Pascoe Pool-Adult male still showing well in roadside bush at 50.0280, -5.1723; very limited parking, park considerately in layby (TR12 6SN) and walk through woods to end of plantation to view-Zitting Cisticola-Suffolk-Walberswick NNR-Displaying male again over saltmarsh between beach and Dunwich River; use Cliff Field car park (IP18 6TX; card/app payment only) and walk south-west along beach for c 1km to view from 52.3063, 1.6560. View only from the seawall, do not walk out on the raised bank-Stejneger's Scoter-Fife-East Wemyss-2nd-summer drake still on sea; use Weavers Court car park (KY1 4RT) and view from Wemyss Caves
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29.1.17

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 29TH JAN 2017




WIRRAL
Heswall-20 Waxwing by junction of A540 and Thurstaston Road.


Leasowe Lighthouse-Greenshank on the groyne.


Heswall-Hen Harrier (ringtail) off Cottage Lane.


Parkgate Marsh-Marsh Harrier (fem).


West Kirby Marine Lake-8 Brent Geese,2 Goosander (fem),6 Red-breasted Merganser (4m, 2f).

 CHESHIRE
Warrington-Adult Yellow-legged Gull on A57 / A562 roundabout.

 Hale Lighthouse-2 Iceland gull(ad & 1w),5 Med gull(3 ad, 2w and 1w) and 3 YLG.

 Four ways quarry-Common Scoter-female in east arm.

 Newchurch Common-redhead smew still on lake north of track; also 1st-winter drake Red-crested Pochard.

 Marbury Country Park-10 White Fronted Geese flew southeast.

 Chelford-Lapwing hall pool-Black Necked Grebe-today.

 Ince marshes-Great White Egret.
MEGAS IN BRITAIN
PACIFIC DIVER-1st-winter-on North pool-Druridge Bay-Northumberland.

 EASTERN BLACK REDSTART-1st Winter Male still on the rocks north side of the jetty-Skinningrove-Cleveland.

 PINE BUNTING-male-still from path off Kerver Lane-Dunnington-North Yorkshire.

BLUE ROCK THRUSH-adult male-at Fisher Close.Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire.

DUSKY THRUSH Still,Pig Lane, Beeley, 5mls NNW of Matlock, Derbyshire.

 PINE BUNTING-Male, at Saxon Shore Way, east of Milton Creek, NE of Sittingbourne, Kent.
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